03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Historic Route 66 & Puerco Pueblo

Written By Fran Terry

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Historic Route 66 bisected the park

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Historic Route 66 bisected the park

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Historic Route 66 bisected the park - 1932 Studebaker sits where Route 66 originally cut through the park

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Historic Route 66 bisected the park

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Historic Route 66 bisected the park

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Historic Route 66 bisected the park. Interstate 40 runs parallel to the original route. I took this photo to remind myself why I’ve tried to stay off the interstates on this trip.

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Historic Route 66 bisected the park

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Historic Route 66 bisected the park - these decommissioned telephone poles ran along the side of route 66

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Historic Route 66 bisected the park

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs - these petroglyphs were more difficult o photograph than the ones at Three Rivers in NM, you can’t get as close to them or see them straight on very well.

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

©03.06.22 Petrified Forest National Park - Puerco Pueblo ruins and petroglyphs

Fran Terry
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